This family's name was sometimes spelt 'Buttar' but we generally keep to Butter not least in deference to the family reported in BLG1952. The name may have derived from the Gaelic 'bothar' which means a cattle road. The family has been reported as having held land around Fascally, near Pitlochry in Perthshire, since the 12th century.

William Butter or Buttar of Gormack & Tullyneadies (a 1390)

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?? Butter presumed intermediary generation

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Patrick Butter of Gormack or Gormock (a 1460, d by 1487?)

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Robert Butter of Gormack

m. Egidia Chalmer (dau of John Chalmer or Chalmers of Drumlochy)

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Henry Butter of Gormack

The two sites we have seen which dealt best with this family - the PerthshireHeritage site mentioned below (which reported on a book by Gordon MacGregor) plus another site (on homegages.tesco.net) which is no longer online - disagreed with each other at this point. The Tesco site showed Henry as father of Patrick (dsp before 11.1535) plus (by Janet Gordon) an unnamed son who was father of the John who married Beatrix Gordon. We follow GMcG not least because the (3rd) husband of Janet Gordon is identified by TSP (Gray) as Patrick Butter, not Henry.

The Tesco site shows the following Elizabeth as dau of John Butter of Gormack by Beatrix Gordon, and notes that she died in 1590 in Inchmartine. That she was daughter of John of Gormock and married as shown here is supported by TSP (Erroll). However, we suspect that this Elizabeth has been confused with another Elizabeth, her niece.

Unfortunately, the data we recorded from the Tesco site ended at this point. However, Archibald (but not his elder brother John) was referred to a later page. We presume that this was the Archibald who is the first mentioned by BLG1952 which shows him as married to ...

See the note above about the Elizabeth, possibly aunt of this Elizabeth, who appears sometimes to have been confused with this Elizabeth. The Tesco site shows her as daughter of John Butter by _ McConick/McCormack of the Killiemulin line, which is wrong.

Main source(s):
(1) various web sites, in particular www.PerthshireHeritage.co.uk (which site has since been superseded by RedBookScot but that site appears not to cover this family) plus another site (once shown within http://homepages.tesco.net)
(2) For later Butter of Pitlochry : BLG1952 (Butter of Pitlochry)Back to top of page